{"id":9189,"date":"2017-09-08T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/news-2962\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:45:11","slug":"news-2962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/news-2962\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Action Lawyers Say Equifax Can\u2019t Prevent You From Suing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:26:35 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

The social security numbers of 143 million people\u2014roughly half of all Americans\u2014were recently compromised when hackers stole<\/a> personal information from credit monitoring firm Equifax. In many cases, home addresses and birth dates were also compromised. <\/p>\n

Now, predictably, the class action lawsuits are beginning to trickle in. One class will seek “as much as $70 billion in damages nationally,” according to<\/a> Bloomberg. Whether these lawsuits will hold up in court, however, is less certain. <\/p>\n

But many people on social media have dug into the terms of service<\/a> for TrustedID, Equifax’s own identity protection product, and have raised fears that by simply checking to see if you were a part of a hack, you may be forfeiting your right to sue.<\/p>\n

TrustedID’s terms maintain “a waiver of the ability to bring or participate in a class action, class arbitration, or other representative action,” or “to share in any class action awards.” Some worry this may keep them from a class action lawsuit, but lawyers tell Motherboard that this clause will be hard for Equifax to enforce in court. <\/p>\n

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